Snow shovel



is a section taken rammed Feb. zo, 1923.

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FRANK n. Hooper., ory Brninnroan, MAINE, nssrelvon Torna r. Hoeren, or -Brnnnronn Merian.

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To all w /Lom may concern:

Be it knownK4 that I, FRANK E. I-Ioornn, 'a citizen of the United States, residing at Biddeford, in the county of York and State of Maine, have invented new anduseful Improvements ina .Snow Shovel, of which the following is a specification.

My invention pertains to improvements in snow shovels of a kind which combines the features of a common shovel for lifting, with a scoop, which is provided with shoes secured to the bottom of the blade of shovel, for transporting the snow to the dumping ground, and with proper handles for operating same; and more particularly to im.- provements on a snow shovel protected by United States Patent No. 787,921 granted to me and issued on the twenty-fifth day of April, 1905, ywhich improvements consist principally in thel protecting means given the forwardl edge and sides of blade by metal reenforcements, together with the method of securing same to blade and also to an extension of Shoes rearwardly so as to provide a fulcrum4 fo-r end `of shovel tol a greater angle with ground, and means for ing and stiffening the connection o-f handles with shoes.

In my former patent, described the construction of. my snow shovel in detail, and as this application applies more specifically to improvements on same, a briefI description of the` former,-

Suflicient to clearly connect the later improved ideas with the fundamental design of the old shovel, will, I believe, be sufficient. In the drawing accompanying this specification Fig. 1 is a view, in perspective, of my improved snow shovel; of under side of shovel, also in with handles broken off and a part of bottom out to show a complete shoe: Fig. 3 is a section taken on line 3-3, Fig.. 1, and Fig. 4

on line 4`4, Fig. 1. Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

In Fig. 1, 1 represents the bottom of the perspective,

blade, and mounted on the top and. at each.

side of which are side-boards 2, 2. At the lrearward end of 1 is back-board 3, set at an .inclined angle to the bottom. Secured to 3f and extending upwardly at the same inclined angle, are handle-bars 4, 4, joined at the top by handle 5. The bottom, 1, side- .fippncation fried Marjanne, y,1922.

vwhich latter is tilting the forward greatly 'strengthen` above referred to, .I

Fig. 2 is a view `plate in both instances flush.

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boards 2 and y esther br SrG-vs nella Or bolts in" any Pra@- tical manner, and all taken together constitute the blade of shovel.

y reference to Fig. 2, showing the undery vthat shoes 6, 6 are also secured to bottom of blade, and` with shoe-irons 7,

side of blade, it will beseen their `under side Vcovered terminating on one end at cross-bar 8,

fastened by screws or to bottom ofblade. .In attaching the handle-bars to shoes original design by extending wardly to eXtreme end ofv blade and adding an extension, projecting upwardlyto shoes, as seen at 9, 9, Fig. 2, an by means of bolts 10, 10 I rigidly secure the y back-board 3, shoes 6, 6 and shoe-irons 7, 7 together, and with dovetailed connection of lower ends of handle-bars with shoes 6, 6,

as seen at ll, 11, I provide an exceptionally strong and rugged.construction.

4'In lengthening the shoes 6, 6"rearwardly I also provide means height to which frontend of blade may be raised from the, ground ywhen fulcrumed on rearward end of shoe and tilted, making it especially useful in riding tions in the path of the shovel.

' In F ig. 4, I

back-board .are fastened `tioi for, increasing .the

over obstrucj illustrate my improved I have improved on my .y

shoes 6, 6 rearhandle-bars 4, 4,

method of -re-enforcing forward end, or entering edge, of bottom by shaped plate or angle iron formed from lone piece of meta-l, the bottom leg 12 of which has holes 13 punched at intervals along its length. Through these holes, which register with similar holes 14 in blade bottom 1, pass rivets 15.` The upper leg 16, is shortened so that the body of the rivet impinges `on its edge, but does not pierce it. The head of rivet, however, overlaps the leg 16 and draws it rabbet cut in blade bot om, making the tops of latter and leg 16 Hush, consequently of-` fering no obstruction to snow or ice in dumping contents off the shovel. It will also be noticed that the front edge of blade bottom is rabbetted on its as its upper, making'the joints have also given protection tothe entering inclined edges of rially lengthen the life and usefulness of the shovel. f V

att-aching a V 1 of plate,

`downward into the under side as well with thel V' j n `:les

y side-boards v2, 2 byk providing vmetal coverings v17, which mate-` Q' Leashes Having thus described my L invention l pose of forming a solid lranie structure fof.

Claim: f Said shovel, an icefbreak'er, consisting of In a snow shovel, the' combination, with V shaped metal blade, the legs of which ena bottom blade, two sides, a back-board, tWo ooinpass the tapered end of Wooden'bottom shoes and shoe-irons and two handle-bars, of ofshovel and fit into rabbets out on the top rearwardly and upwardly extending poi^- and bottom sides of said bottom, and means tions ol' said shoes and said shoe-irons, for securely fastening said V shaped metal adapted to abut on the iearwaidly inclined blade to said bottom so that their outei` sursurface of said baelvboard', -Ineansffoi rigfaces will be Hush-Substantially as deidly securing said extended portions of said scribed.

shoes and said shoe-irons to 'the said backboai'd and the said handle-bars, Joi' the pui- FRANK E. HOOPER. 

